Ada Gobetti

Ada Gobetti (later Marchesini; ; 14 July 1902 – 14 March 1968) was an Italian teacher, journalist and anti-fascist leader.

Biography

With her husband Piero Gobetti she contributed to several antifascist magazines, including La Rivoluzione Liberale which was suppressed in 1925 by the fascist dictatorship. Her husband was beaten by fascist squads She was a leader in the Italian resistance movement and she co-founded the female group of partigiane, Gruppi di difesa della donna. After the end of the war, the CLN made her vice-mayor of Turin. In the 1950s she contributed to multiple left-wing and pedagogy publications, including L'Unità, Paese Sera and Educazione Democratica.

In 1956 she joined the Italian Communist Party.

Death and legacy She died in 1968 after a life dedicated to democracy and women's rights. On 2 October 1978 she was posthumously awarded the Silver Medal of Military Valour for her role in the anti-fascist resistance movement.

In the Florestano Vancini's film The Assassination of Matteotti (1973), Ada Gobetti is played by Manuela Kustermann.

Works In Italian Alessandro Pope. Il poeta del razionalismo settecentesco, Bari, Laterza, 1943 Dai quattro ai sedici anni. Guida ai libri per ragazzi, Torino, Edizioni del Giornale dei genitori, 1960 Cinque bambini e tre mondi. Torino, SAIE, 1953 Non lasciamoli soli. Consigli ai genitori per l'educazione dei figli, Torino, La cittadella, 1958 Diario partigiano. Torino, Einaudi, 1956, 1972 e 1996 Storia del gallo Sebastiano ovverosia Il tredicesimo uovo, Torino, Einaudi, 1963 Vivere insieme. Corso di educazione civica, Torino, Loescher, 1967 Educare per emancipare. Scritti pedagogici 1953-1968, Manduria, Lacaita, 1982 Piero Gobetti, Ada Gobetti. Nella tua breve esistenza. Lettere 1918-1926, Torino, Einaudi, 1991 In English